The sad reality is that I'm going to be fine. I'm going to survive the turmoil and probably make money in the process, because I've been lucky before now. I worry for people that haven't been lucky. I worry for people that have been lucky but happen to be the "wrong" race. I worry for my gay friends that are looking at fleeing the country as an easier alternative. I worry for my trans friend that already has fled the country.
The US has always had problems, sure, but nothing like this.
People existing in society in good faith. People who just want the world to be a better place to live, and aren't willing to shove people down below them in order to get an edge.
And Linux isn't minimal effort. It's an operating system that demands more of you than does the commercial offerings from Microsoft and Apple. Thus, it serves as a dojo for understanding computers better. With a sensei who keeps demanding you figure problems out on your own in order to learn and level up.
Counterpoint: most people don't use Linux because the people that evangelize Linux talk about it like this.
I don't want to "level up," I want to accomplish my tasks. I'm trying to get shit done, not train for a fucking tournament.
Honestly, AI coding assistants (as in the ones working like auto-complete in the code editor) are very close to useless unless maybe you work in one of those languages like Java that are extremely verbose and lack expressiveness.
Hard disagree. They're not writing anything on their own, no, but my stack saves at least 75% of my time, and I work full-stack across pieces in 5 different languages.
Cursor + Claude was the latest big shift for me, maybe two months ago? If you haven't tried them, it was a huge bump in utility
Casual reminder: the billionaires haven't lost jack shit. Virtually all of their losses are unrealized, usually in the form of stock. Once everything is finally at rock bottom, they will buy up everything they can (which will still be a lot), values will eventually rebound, and they will have lost nearly nothing while seeing massive gains.
If you see someone actively going against your values and don't think they're shitty people, then you must not feel very strongly about those values 🤷♂️
In the short-term (0-6mo, maybe less): probably nothing really changes. It's not super likely that anyone would be holding on to a massive flaw, waiting for EOL. Nothing stops Microsoft from patching after EOL for something major, they've done it before.
Medium-term (maybe up to a year or two): you're looking at real potential to get infected with --who-knows-what--. Hard to say how long it would take or how widespread it would be.
Longer term: massive, massive security hole. Microsoft has probably even patched a major thing or two by now (despite EOL), but there will always be more
These are like side dishes or snacks to me. I just don't feel sated.
Funny, I'm the opposite - I get stuffed from a breakfast of bacon, eggs, and toast/biscuit/hashbrowns, whereas I don't tend to eat nearly as much at other meals.
Feels like the end times. I have a couple friends that are working on plans to flee the country because they're trans. My partner and I were going to be looking at buying a house this year, but at this point, I'm worried that we're better off joining them, instead...
... do you think the DNC is the government?